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Marilyn Monroe-inspired nude shoot by Lindsay Adler

Sunday 16 October 2022, 20:10 by | 6,439 views | 1 comment

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Photographer Lindsay Adler takes beautiful photos and is also great at explaining what she does and how you can create a similar photo. In this video, she walks through how she created a Marilyn Monroe-inspired photoshoot.


For the shoot, she uses her own Optical Spot, developed with Westcott. She combines the hard light it produces with the soft light from a softbox.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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  1. Lauran
    Lauran wrote on Wednesday 19 October 2022 at 11:50  | reply

    Gee, I've been doing nude photography for magazines and books for many years. But only with professional models, of course.
    It remains a beautiful profession. A profession that requires a lot of experience and decency.

    Translated from Dutch.

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